Monday, September 19, 2011

We have been focusing on persuading others for oral language this term. Today we each picked an object in the class that we thought we could sell to other people in the hub. When the music stopped, we tried to sell the object to the first person we saw. The winner then challenged another winner, until we ended up with two groups trying to persuade each other to buy two items. Take a look at the photos to see the items that we chose to sell!

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

During reading time, the Pumice group have been learning how to "make connections between text types and identify text features whether they are reading text or being a writer themselves." This week, they read poems from different school journals, looked at the different text features that made that poem special, and then wrote a similar poem themselves.

Noeramiah read the poem from SJ Part 2, Number 3, 2009 called Blackbird. She then wrote this poem:

White Bird.

There is twitter,there is flight,there is a sweet songwith other birds.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Today, Anthia and Dasha taught us all how to make a movie using still images in iMovie. They were very good teachers, and we were soon off to make our own movies about the value of respect. Here is Ethan's group to share their movie with you.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

We got to learn all about cricket today, with the help of Nick from Auckland University Cricket. We ran and threw and caught. We got to play really fun cricket games. One involved a lava pit! Check out the photos to see us in action. Can you see us throwing underarm and overarm? Leave us a comment and tell us how you think we went!